KshitijAggarwal/FRB-journal-club

Public repository for FRB Journal Club at Department of Physics and Astronomy at WVU

FRB Journal Club

Public repository for FRB Journal Club at Department of Physics and Astronomy at WVU. Take a look at these review articles: Fast Radio Bursts and The Physical Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts, for an observational and theoretical introduction of FRBs.

27 September

Papers Discussed:

• Circularly polarized radio emission from the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20201124A

• IQRM: real-time adaptive RFI masking for radio transient and pulsar searches

13 September

Papers Discussed:

• A Local Universe Host for the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 20181030A

• VOLKS2: a transient search and localization pipeline for VLBI observations

• Sub-second periodicity in a fast radio burst

30 August

Papers Discussed:

• Polarization properties of FRB 20201124A from detections with the 100-m Effelsberg Radio Telescope

• The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog

16 August

Papers Discussed:

• A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source

• Burst properties of the highly active FRB 20201124A using uGMRT

• Absence of bursts between 4-8 GHz from FRB20200120E located in an M81 Globular Cluster

• An Arecibo 327 MHz Search for Radio Pulsars and Bursts in the Dwarf Irregular Galaxies Leo A and T

14 June

Papers Discussed:

• Searching for radio pulsation from SGR 1935+2154 with the Parkes Ultra-Wideband Low receiver

• Fast Radio Burst Morphology in the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

• Burst timescales and luminosities link young pulsars and fast radio bursts

7 June

Papers Discussed:

• Kinematics of Crab Giant Pulses

• Narrow-banded giant pulses from the Crab pulsar

• An analysis of the time-frequency structure of several bursts from FRB,121102 detected with MeerKAT

• Multi-wavelength follow-up of FRB 180309

• The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT III: Giant pulse characteristics of PSR J0540−6919

26 April

Papers Discussed:

• Constraining bright optical counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts

• Statistical properties of fast radio bursts elucidate their origins: magnetars are favoured over gamma-ray bursts

• A new measurement of the Hubble constant using Fast Radio Bursts

• Effect of Redshift Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts on Cosmological Constraints

• The Physical Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts

29 March

Papers Discussed:

• Reconstruction of Baryon Fraction in Intergalactic Medium through Dispersion Measurements of Fast Radio Bursts

• Multi-frequency observations of SGR J1935+2154

• A nearby repeating fast radio burst in the direction of M81

• An accreting stellar binary model for active periodic fast radio bursts

22 March

Papers Discussed:

• Fast radio burst detection in the presence of coloured noise

• Distinguishing Time Clustering of Astrophysical Bursts

• MeerTRAP in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics

• Multiwavelength observations of Fast Radio Bursts

• The First Fast Radio Burst Detected with VLITE-Fast

• CRAFTS for Fast Radio Bursts Extending the dispersion-fluence relation with new FRBs detected by FAST

8 February

Papers Discussed:

• Galactic Radio Explorer: an all-sky monitor for bright radio bursts

• Possible periodic activity in the short bursts of SGR 1806-20: connection to fast radio bursts

• Joint inference on the redshift distribution of fast radio burst and on the intergalactic baryon content

25 January

Papers Discussed:

• Re-Analysis of Breakthrough Listen Observations of FRB 121102: Polarization Properties of Eight New Spectrally Narrow Bursts

• A search for hard X-ray bursts occurring simultaneously to fast radio bursts in the repeating FRB 121102

• Fourier domain excision of periodic radio frequency interference

• Deep optical observations contemporaneous with emission from the periodic FRB 180916.J0158+65

• Dispersion and Rotation Measures from the Ejecta of Compact Binary Mergers: Clue to the Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts